"near-infinitely small" ? ^_^ anyway they were still less advanced than the ancients (the MW replicators I mean) so there is a limit to their knowledge
also the size consideration assumes that shields can be compared to a net of some sort, in which case sufficiently small objects could slip through - however this may only apply to some types of shields, if any, as shielding differs vastly with each race, actually we know nothing about how shields work (and according to real-life present-day earth-science it's impossible (I mean the true energy-shielding, not those experimental plasma shields that are nothing more than material walls))
and even if all shields were like nets all the asgard would have to do is reduce the size of the meshes to make them much much smaller than a nanite, since shields are massless it would always be possible to make the meshes smaller than any material object possibly could
btw the ori beams did not use only brute force against shields, the fact that they could punch through shields was due to...something else...this was clearly shown in Ethon
also the size consideration assumes that shields can be compared to a net of some sort, in which case sufficiently small objects could slip through - however this may only apply to some types of shields, if any, as shielding differs vastly with each race, actually we know nothing about how shields work (and according to real-life present-day earth-science it's impossible (I mean the true energy-shielding, not those experimental plasma shields that are nothing more than material walls))
and even if all shields were like nets all the asgard would have to do is reduce the size of the meshes to make them much much smaller than a nanite, since shields are massless it would always be possible to make the meshes smaller than any material object possibly could
btw the ori beams did not use only brute force against shields, the fact that they could punch through shields was due to...something else...this was clearly shown in Ethon
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